Zine is part of a project that "highlights and activates physical materials found in public libraries." This Issue focuses on documentation of a 1972 study on personal identification within law enforcement.

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Collection of short comics. This issue features a modern take on Death of a Salesman with alternate endings and a review from the Chicago Tribune of concerts of Mariah Carey and Britney Spears. It also includes a special edition screen printed cover.

Founded in 1972, the Reporter is an investigative monthly that identifies, analyzes and reports on the social, economic and political issues of metropolitan Chicago with a focus on race and poverty. (From masthead.)

In These Times is an alternative, biweekly newsmagazine published by the Institute for Public Affairs in Chicago. It is a member of the Alternative Press Syndicate. This issue focuses on education, police racism and brutality, and media coverage of the 1997 UPS strike.

Short nonfiction piece about cultural intervention at American Girl Place and the discrepancies between the commericial &ldquo;wants&rdquo; American Girl hopes to inspire in little girls and what actual girls want.

"The stories presented here tell tales of a new Chicago, a Chicago that, like the Scott Mutter montage that fronts this book, is made up of diverse images that suggest new ways of seeing. They provide alternative interpretations of life in the city. What you will find in this collection is a a multi-cultural neighborhood in print, a neighborhood which has yet to surface on Chicago streets, one which is perhaps still years away in a city that touts its culturally plural make-up while still enforcing rigid boundaries between segregated neighborhoods. Murder by industrial pollution (often masked by self-abuse), racism, homophobia, the disintegration of family life, the struggle for control of one's own body and mind, the troubles facing a growing elderly population, the subjugation of minority cultures to the rich, the white, the male, are all issues confronted by the writers of these stories. They speak through a range of voices, creating a new, urgent sense of Chicago Realism. These storytellers provide testimony to a new Chicago, a Chicago that while steeped in American tradition challenges the narrow boundaries of its stereotype. They speak to a changing America, an America that has awakened from decades of a false, prosperity-driven revelry with a reality hangover. They speak of an America that must now begin to turn its attention to the social and environmental problems it has too long ignored." - From the back cover